Re: Of removable devices

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Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:

> >
> > A file is backlinked to the fs superblock, isn't it?
>
> Not. _Please_, read any introductory text on UNIX. Seriously. Files on
> UNIX are nameless. Directories contain pairs (name, reference to file).
[...]

I KNOW all this. I'm no beginner with Unix! What I see is that:

- task_struct contains files_struct
- files_struct contains struct file **
- struct file contains dentry *f_dentry
- dentry contains struct super_block *d_sb...

Therefore, with a file, you get a reference to a superblock...

-- 
fg
# rm *;o
o: command not found
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